Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Holly Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-cobble-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Tree Cottage, Langham Lane, CO4 5PZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 024 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95969, 0.94563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Tree Cottage is an 18th-century or earlier cottage located on Langham Lane in Langham. It is a two-bay timber-framed building, now plastered, with a thatched ridge and gable roof. A single, central chimney is constructed of red brick. The cottage is of one storey with attics. It has a central front door positioned between two small-paned, hornless sash windows. A single-storey extension, slated in its construction, was added in the 19th century on the left-hand side.
Local climate
Holly Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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